sweetbread

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See also: sweet bread

English

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Cooked sweetbread encrusted with chufa

Etymology

Apparently from sweet +‎ bread, though the reason is not immediately evident. Possibly connected with Dutch zwezerik, whose etymology is also unclear.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: sweet‧bread

Noun

sweetbread (plural sweetbreads)

  1. The pancreas or thymus gland of an animal, especially a lamb or calf, as food.

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References

  1. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “zwezerik”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute